Thus far this morning, there are at least a dozen emails in my InBox along the following lines:
Hey, why is my link to your entry [insert title here] not working? It pisses me off to have a broken link on my page!
So, for the slow kids, let me spell it out:
1. I have switched from MT to WP and I am never going back.
2. With over 3500 entries, I didn’t feel like editing my individual MT posts to redirect them to their new location in WordPress.
3. Yes, I know I could’ve used the “friendly permalink” structure and done a Mod_Rewrite or even a MySQL dump, both of which would’ve prevented this problem. I didn’t because I felt lazy. Happy?
4. You’re welcome to “fix” the link on your page and have it point to [insert entry title here]. Just use the search box to find it, or go to the Old Venom page where you can get a listing of all entries by title, category or date.
5. Or, ignore it and wait for the damn link to fall off your front page.
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April 15, 2004 at 11:16 am
Isn’t it amazing how anything a person does to their website causes so many people to show their true natures?
April 15, 2004 at 11:21 am
Jeez, Kate. Didn’t you know you’re supposed to drop everything else in your life to fix 3500 links?! Where are your priorities??
/sarcasm
In the right place, I’d say.
April 15, 2004 at 12:45 pm
I’ll second Chelle on her comment. By the way I am curious how much disc space was saved by the switch; I’m trying to find out if my estimate of 1/4 the MT disc usage is accurate.
April 15, 2004 at 12:52 pm
With MT, my database size was 54.3 meg and I used 180 meg of disk space. With WP, my database is all of 8.2 meg and I’m using only 52.99 meg of disk space. A very nice savings!
April 15, 2004 at 4:55 pm
If I spent the time searching for all the dead links when 99% of the people will never go back that far to find them, I wouldn’t have time to enjoy myself, not much fun.
Option 5 sounds bout right. Too much good stuff to read without bothering bout the old stuff.
And isn’t Wp spiffy?
April 16, 2004 at 9:37 am
Aside from saving space, what are the advantages of WordPress over MT? How easy/hard is it to switch?
May 10, 2004 at 2:36 pm
The following can’t be that difficult for you to do. Please. Oh, you accept bribes. Ok, tipjar visit coming momentarily.
http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/MT-Redirect
August 17, 2004 at 8:12 pm
My browser is just showing unknown modifer lines.
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